Originally Posted by
mulcher
I can tell you the two restaurant owners I know aren’t in that boat. The China flu didn’t put them out of business but not getting employees might. Three others that own businesses aren’t in the restaurant business. They are subsidizing the lack of employees by getting larger equipment to do more with less people. Americans have become lazy pigs. All they want is a handout and what they haven’t worked for. It’s your money and the lazy Americans want it now!
Maybe the market has just corrected itself. Why make $3/hr as a restaurant server when similar jobs are paying much more? These businesses were quick to layoff workers without any sympathy, so I'm not sure why you, as a labor employee, fault anyone for taking a better option.